State of wonder

Ann Patchett First published 2011

About this book

As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness.

Subjects

  • brazil, fiction
  • drug discovery
  • fiction
  • fiction, action & adventure
  • fiction, medical
  • jungles
  • medicine
  • medicine in literature
  • new york times bestseller
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-06-26
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • research
  • scientists
  • women scientists, fiction